The Terrifying Idea of Getting Older

            The article by Daniel H. Wilson called “ The Terrifying Thing About Technology” it reminds me about my lessons with my grandmother on how to use Facebook. Technology is getting better and better each day, but for old people like my grandmother it’s hard to understand it. Young people tend to grasp technology much easier and faster than any adult. Wilson says in the article that “technology was made for young people” and I couldn’t agree more with him. For us technology its part of our daily lives, and it is as important as in having food in the table. In my situation if I don’t have the latest technology in my hands I feel like I’m behind or that I’m not cool at all.

            As young adults we tend to adapt easier and faster to anything that they put us in our way. That is why you see that young adults always find their way to master the newest devices, no matter how hard is it to use. For an adult, it is going to be much harder because they were raised with different technology, and almost most of the adults that I know they are pretty sentimental about their technology back in their days. For example, when I taught my grandmother how to use Skype at first she was yelling at people through the computer, because since they were in different countries she supposed that she had to yell in order for the other person to hear her. After hours of explanation, she understood that she didn’t had to yell in order for people to hear her and she said that back in her days the telephone didn’t exist either and that she had to yell to call her neighbor. Then I understood why was so natural for her to yell at the computer, she was raised with different ways of communication.

            As Wilson said in his article, I also believe that adults can get to manage new technological devices if they put a lot of effort into it. Unlike young people, adults have to put much more effort to get to know how to use new devices.  It is true that adults have to start putting more interest into new technological advances, because in the future it is possible that the way that they are used to do things are going to change drastically due to technology and they will have to adapt in order to be independent. For example, not so long ago my mom begged me to teach her how to use Facebook. It was really funny why she was so excited to learn how to use it. She said that she had to learn how to use Facebook, because her friends were using it and since she is one of the oldest ones in her group of friends it was difficult for her to understand Facebook on her own.  My lessons with her were about an hour everyday, now she manages Facebook perfectly. Now I don’t know if I did good teaching her, because now all she does is go to my profile to spy on me. My mom is a good example of how adults can adapt to new technology if hey really want to understand it.

            To finalize, I believe that technology was made for young adults because it is easier for us to adapt to new devices. Even thought it is hard for old folks to adapt to new technology, I am sure that they can adapt to them just that it will take them more work. Now, to be honest I am scared of getting old, because then I’ll not have the same skills to adapt to new technology. But as Wilson said, I will do my best to keep updated with new technological devices and I will work hard in order to get to master them as I do now.